On Monday 30 October 2006 18:48, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On Monday 30 October 2006 03:42 pm, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > 2) My thoughts. I am writing this as an end user and as a member of the
> > > Organizing committee of LinuxFest NW (linuxfestnorthwest.org/). Last
> > > year Jim Nasby spoke at LFNW, funded by his employer Pervasive. He was
> > > the lone Postgres speaker in a conference that had a team of people
> > > from MySQL and another team from Oracle. Oracle and MySQL are planning
> > > on returning, Pervasive is out of the Postgres business. In my role as
> > > organizer I would like to see Postgres represented, but money is short.
> >
> > Actually, we have a bunch of community in Seattle and in British
> > Columbia ... how far is Bellingham?
>
> To Seattle 90 miles.
> To the BC border 21 miles.
There's a bunch of pg users servicing the BC provincial govt, some of them are
faculty at UBC I think, they specialize in postgis.